2024 Paris Olympics tableau of The Last Supper
The controversial subversion of the iconic last supper of Jesus into a LGBTQ, Dionysusian tableau at the 2024 Paris Olympics has raised the ire of Christians around the world. Why would France promote such imagery at a forum that would be broadcast worldwide? It is a manifestation of an ongoing process in which radically secular […]
The Distorted Modern Mirror of History and Perception
WHEN TWO MIRRORS ARE HELD FACING EACH OTHER a regression of reflections results. A corridor of mirrors dwindling away into minuscule images beyond the range of vision is created. But each time the reflections repeat themselves the quality of the reflection degrades ever so slightly. At first this change is hardly noticeable, but as we […]
Political Responsibility and the Destruction of Gaza
Politicians, by the nature of their office, have a serious duty to be answerable for their words, decisions, and actions, when faced with situations that require moral judgements and ethical and moral responsibility. They especially, as a political class in which the citizenry has vested a certain degree of power and trust, must hold individual […]
Dua (A Prayer) for Palestinians
Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim O God, the calamity has become immense and the ugliness of its destructive consequences are openly visible for all to witness. Only the deniers of Truth, those who dwell in the illusions of their own minds, who have lost their own souls and who have become like ravenous beasts – they attack […]
And with Him are the keys of the unseen….
“And with Him are the keys of the unseen.” (Qur’an 6:59) The use of unseen in the Qur’an includes vast domains of hidden reality, of worlds beyond the limits of our knowledge, of existences and creations outside the boundaries of our perception, of whole vast realms that are concealed and demarcated so as to deny […]
Your soul is sufficient as a reckoning…
Extract from The Wisdom of The Throne (Mulla Sadra) ———— He – May He be exalted – said: “And We bring forth for them on the Day of the Rising a Book that they find opened wide. Read your Book! Today your soul is sufficient as a reckoning against you” (Qur’an, 17:13-14). And He – […]
A prayer
This live-streamed genocide is hard to bear. But far harder to bear is the indifference of so many towards it. It breaks my heart. So many children suffering and dying before the eyes of the world and yet there is, across the West, a conspiracy of obstinate silence, or worse, obstinate approval of the relentless […]
There is no existential threat to Israel
There is no existential threat to Israel or to the Jewish people or to Judaism. There is, however, as there should be, a very real threat to political Zionism. Its time is done. Judaism is a faith, a religion, a way of life, and it is to be respected, honoured, and protected. Political Zionism is […]
Gaza – a lamentation
This fall the harvest of the olive trees became doubtful. The F-16s roared overhead as we went to pick fruit from slim trees newly rising from the bulldozed soil of the old groves. Their desert flowers were scattered here and there, but their blossoms were now replaced by the incandescent blooms that flared endlessly, brightly, […]
The template of their fiction
When there is no connecting thread that ties information together the way is opened for someone to overlay a story (a way of viewing the information) onto events and in this way to color and shape perceptions. Rather than looking for patterns which naturally emerge from events and which best explains all the information, a […]